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Post by redjimmy1955 on Oct 8, 2023 12:02:50 GMT
Ok, y'all. I couldn't make out what the RR or the engine types were in last nights movie, "the alligator people". Anybody else see a problem with the trains not being
"the stars" in movies...lol
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 8, 2023 13:26:36 GMT
I understand that the film was a kind of "B" side for the main feature, Return of the Fly:
 
The only thing about the honeymoon train depicted at the start of the film that I dimly recognize is that it has a blunt end observation car with a tailsign that may say "Golden State" or something else ending in State:
The soundtrack seems to include diesel electric motors and a diesel horn, so I'd guess that the footage is of a classic streamliner era train. I get nothing much from the interior shots of the train, which may have been a mock-up or set. But to answer redjimmy's question I agree that trains should be the stars of the movies that feature them.
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Post by chipset35 on Oct 8, 2023 14:56:30 GMT
Original King Kong 1930s, where he attacks the Manhattan El.
As a kid I got very angry at him about that.
No not the train!
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Post by david1 on Oct 8, 2023 18:01:07 GMT
My favorite monster of all time has to be Godzilla, and the best scene is when he picks up a passenger car in his mouth and then drops it in the original Godzilla movie gojira.
Dave
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Post by david1 on Oct 8, 2023 18:12:34 GMT
Btw there will be two Godzilla movies coming in the next year. Japan's Godzilla 'Minus one, on December 1, 2023 and In April 12 2024 Godzilla x Kong, The new Empire,
Both look to be great movies for Godzilla fans.
Dave
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Post by firewood on Oct 9, 2023 1:32:33 GMT
'The Giant Gila Monster', 1959 - a true B-fest with the usual baaaad editing and cheesy effects. The scene where the monster destroys a train is good for a laugh - there are about three different trains, a switcher-hauled one (Baldwin?), an F-unit pulling, and a possible Lionel set in the crash off a bridge. All the trains are supposedly the same one... (See 4:54 - 5:33)
Dave
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 9, 2023 5:42:02 GMT
LOL, I’ve worked out that the tailsign pictured above does say “Golden State” but for some reason the text photographed backwards:
Maybe that was intended to be extra spooky? (I doubt it.) K-Line made a model of this car in red livery although the SP/Rock Island prototype also ran in silver:
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Post by dennym57 on Oct 9, 2023 15:04:43 GMT
I've been watching Godzilla movies since the sixties. Raymond Burr was in the original movie.
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Post by atsda on Oct 9, 2023 18:47:58 GMT
Thanks harborbelt70 and firewood for your detailed informational posts. The only monster movie that I remember is one where the monster (I don't remember which one) picks up a set of passenger cars - I don't know if this is the movie that Dave refers to. Alfred
(It would be interesting to have a thread that features other movies that feature trains. There are a few that come to mind; a Western or two, and Pelham 123 - where a NYC subway train is hijacked for ransome - with Walter Mathau.))
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Post by redjimmy1955 on Oct 9, 2023 19:03:50 GMT
Keep the thread going......there are so many more "trains taking one for the team" in monster movies..One difference is Klaatu telling Bobby about trackless trains "where I come from" in the move "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Why somebody made an A W F U L remake is just bewildering.....perhaps just for making a few Benjamins?
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Post by david1 on Oct 9, 2023 19:11:18 GMT
I've been watching Godzilla movies since the sixties. Raymond Burr was in the original movie. Denny, Raymond Burr was not in the original Godzilla film, when Japan released Godzilla to the American audience the original movie was cut apart to make it more American and they inserted Raymond Burr. He was not in the original but that's the version we all saw in 1955. The original gojira (Godzilla) was not released in the USA till 2010. The Raymond Burr version is not bad but you have to see the original Godzilla, it is much better. Its on YouTube so look it up. Dave
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Post by david1 on Oct 9, 2023 19:13:59 GMT
Keep the thread going......there are so many more "trains taking one for the team" in monster movies..One difference is Klaatu telling Bobby about trackless trains "where I come from" in the move "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Why somebody made an A W F U L remake is just bewildering.....perhaps just for making a few Benjamins? The original was a great movie, the remake made no sense to me. Dave
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Post by Traindiesel! on Oct 9, 2023 23:38:48 GMT
…..Why somebody made an A W F U L remake is just bewildering.....perhaps just for making a few Benjamins? The original was a great movie, the remake made no sense to me. Dave
I’m looking forward to the upcoming films!
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Post by af3020 on Oct 10, 2023 0:23:27 GMT
There's the subway that gets torn to pieces by one of the monsters in Suicide Squad.
The super luxury train that transports the contestants to the capitol in Hunger Games.
In the movie Source Code there is a Chicago commuter train which is the focus of a lot of the action.
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one of the Back to the Future movies has a hot rodded steam engine.
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Post by david1 on Oct 10, 2023 3:24:16 GMT
The original was a great movie, the remake made no sense to me. Dave
I’m looking forward to the upcoming films! The movie your talking about was was Godzilla 1998. It was not made by TOHO in Japan but a couple guys in the USA who got the rights to make a Godzilla movie. They designed their own monster which pi@$#%# off TOHO. I mean their monster looked nothing like the original Godzilla. So the movie was a huge flop. Godzilla fans stayed away from it. Now if it was a stand alone movie it was not bad but connecting to Godzilla did not make people happy. Plus the monsters that hatched in the Stadium looked like a rip off of Jurassic Park. I look forward to the two new Godzilla movies, one by TOHO and the other one by Legendary, Dave
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